Hold Back Tomorrow (1955)

A serial killer (John Agar) has a last request before he is hanged. He wants a woman for the night. The police hire a suicidal prostitute (Cleo Moore) for $200 and bring her to his cell. Written, produced and directed by Hugo Haas (LIZZIE), so we know who to blame for this ridiculous stinker! This is basically a two character piece as the angry "chip on his shoulder" murderer and the poetry quoting hooker talk in his prison cell the few hours before his execution and eventually fall in love. The film seems to be set in an unnamed foreign country as the prison guards are in military looking uniforms and the "chaplain" is a monk. What U.S. prison would send out for a hooker for a death row inmate? The dialogue is laughably trite. Moore says to Agar, "You're not a killer. You're just a little boy who got into trouble!". Yeah, tell that to the victims' families. The movie addresses his first killing but not the others. The film's biggest crime isn't that it's silly, it's boring! And you'd need a better actor than the dreadful John Agar to make his killing machine palatable. With Harry Guardino and Frank DeKova.